Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

After I left Wall Street and I was going on to my Odyssey to figure out what I was supposed to do with my life.

And I worked in magazine publishing because I thought that that would be a good

mix for me because I loved business but I was also really creative as a little girl I would draw

and paint all the time and I thought I was either going to be an animator for Disney or a fashion designer.

Was that your dream as a child? I had I was a multi-passionate kid. So when I look back at those kid books, my mom kept like really great records and it says, you know, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I would answer at six with like five or six different professions from like, I wanted to be an artist and a dancer and an actress and a writer and a teacher. There was always a million things. You've done all those things. It sounds like, right? Yeah, but I even remember as a kid, I was like, gosh, choosing one thing sounds so boring.

And I know it's great for some people because that's their truth, but for me there was always

a lot happening.

So even in the magazine publishing world, it was awesome and I'm so grateful for that experience,

but I kept having that feeling that I think many of us have, this is not where I'm so grateful for that experience, but I kept having that feeling that I think

many of us have, this is not where I'm supposed to be.

This is not what I'm meant to do.

And I would look ahead at my bosses, you know, the publisher of the magazine, the editor-in-chief

of the magazine, and I would see that path and I said, gosh, I don't want to be them.

I'm not aspiring to get that job. So if I don't want to

climb this ladder, what am I doing here? Like, I'm wasting my time and their time. And it started to

really gnaw at me. I had so much potential, and it felt like time was passing me by. And again,

I was all of like 21 years old. But at that point, I was like,

you know, a racehorse ready to get out of the gate. And I just felt like I couldn't get traction.

I felt like a loser, to be honest with you, because I knew I was smart, I knew I was driven,

I knew I was ready to work hard, but I felt like I that clarity comes from engagement, not thought.

I remember being in those jobs, trying to think my way into what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

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